Saturday Snapshots #40 - The Answers

No!


Sleep!


Till Saturday Snapshots have all been answered.

Low attendance yesterday - I guess SS can't compete with the football. I think Charity Chic just nabbed the win. Half a point ahead of Lynchie. And Alyson... I think... scraped past the line first last week.

Thanks for playing...


10. God, the German trees in France are all conifers.

Tree in German is baum. Conifers are evergreen. The Normans came from France.

God is the spirit in the sky.

Norman Greenbaum - Spirit In The Sky

9. Emergency! There's knaves in the cellar!

Knaves are Jacks.

Basement Jaxx - Red Alert!

8. Is my belle surprised? I'll ask her.

Michelle is my belle, according to the Beatles. Does that shock you?

"My wife's going to the biggest city in America's northern most state."

"Anchorage?"

"I'll ask her..."

(Alaska.)

Badum-tish.

Michelle Shocked - Anchorage

7. These guys certainly don't own a Blue Nile album. And their disco is full of cotton wool.

Hats is an album by The Blue Nile.

If you wrap something in cotton wool, you are keeping it safe.

Men Without Hats - Safety Dance

6. Bah! Clomp is not a man.

Bah clomp is an anagram of Lambchop.

Lambchop - Is A Woman

5. Morrissey's window cleaner dines with bright kings.

Morrissey's window cleaner was Roy('s) Keen.

Keane - Sovereign Light Café

(Look, this is a good song. It's not his fault he looks like a young David Cameron.)

4. Saint swaps chainmail and dumps January's aviator.

Saint Joan is trading her armour.

January was a hit for Pilot.

Joan Armatrading - Drop The Pilot

3. B.A. hires The Cars for dim bulbs.

B.A. was Mr. T. If he hired a band he would be a booker. MGs were cars. The Cars were a band. Dim bulbs would be...

Booker T & The MGs - Green Onions

2. Little David Bowie's noisy band RSVP.

David Bowie was DB, with a little d. Decibels measure noise.

RSVP is Répondez s'il vous plait.

The dBs - Write Back

(One for Brian!)

1. Playgirl fantasies on Martha's beach run from the barber.

If Playboys liked bunny girls, presumably Playgirls would like Bunnymen.

Martha's beach was Echo.

Spare us the cutter!



You've Gotta Fight For Your Right to play Saturday Snapshots again next week...

My Top Ten Molly Songs (Tribute To Molly The Cat Part 2)

Molly getting ready to go on holiday with us.

In the inevitable follow-up to last night's post: ten Molly songs.

The main reason I write, the main reason I've always written... stories, comics, novels, plays, blogs, anything... is to try to make sense of it all. Writing these posts has been cathartic. Thanks for all the kind words.



10. The Kingston Trio - Run, Molly, Run / Molly Dee

I was fortunate to stumble across a box set compilation of early Kingston Trio albums in a charity shop a year or so back. Here's two for the price of one from that collection.

9. The dB's - Molly Says

Top mid-80s powerpop racket. Great lyrics.

She could stand at the top of the world
And still complain that she could not see
She could stand in a deep dark hole
And still look down on me

8. Kings of Leon - Molly's Chambers

On paper, the Kings of Leon should exactly the kind of band I dote over. I just never quite got it, though. Still, this is undoubtedly one of their best.

7. Strawberry Story - Molly Ringwald

I'm sure one of my fellow bloggers will be able to tell you a lot more about Strawberry Story than I can (Brian? JC?) but any band that namechecks 80s teen heroine Molly Ringwald scores points in my record collection.

6. Travis - Only Molly Knows

One for Martin, I'm sure.

Arguably the best song on The Man Who was the hidden track, Blue Flashing Light. Turns out that on the US edition of the CD, there were three hidden tracks. None of them particularly shabby.

5. The People The Poet - Molly Drove Me Away

Contemporary Welsh rock that sounds like it hails from New Jersey? Yes, please.

4. Kenny Rogers & The First Edition - Molly

Epic country tragedy. The internet claims this was written by Alex Harvey... but surely that must be some other Alex Harvey?

3. The Vaselines / Nirvana - Molly's Lips

The original is an off-kilter classic, obviously. No wonder it was one of Kurt's favourite records.

2. Emily Kinney - Molly

So much more interesting as a singer-songwriter than she ever got to be on The Walking Dead.

1. Little Richard - Good Golly, Miss Molly

One of the most influential recordings in the history of rock 'n' roll? Check. Seems like a fine place to end this tribute to a unique feline.



What's your favourite Molly song? (Points will be deducted for suggesting Ob-La-Di Ob-La-Dah because it's bloody annoying. If you're one of those people who doesn't read to the end of the post, don't say you weren't warned.)